explosion was near or outside of, the baron hotel is also the site of one of those helicopter evacs of i believe it was american citizens being taken from that hotel. >> reporter: yeah, that was there the early days of the evacuation. 169 americans were airlifted out of the baron into the airfield. but the baron at the time was a benign environment. it had been secured by british paratroopers and their base. there was a lift conducted because that area where the bomb blast at the abbey gate or near where that has gone off was insecure. now we don't know why it was considered insecure. other passengers have been able to cross between the baron and through the abbey gate. it is a sort of run of a few hundred meters to get into the airport. but it was obviously deemedin secure at that time. in secure enough to use a big piece of airlift like a chinook aircraft to hop over into baron and pick these people up and move them back into the main airfield. so that is just an indication of just howin -- how insecure this is. the baron is outside of the hard perimeter of the whole airfield. but

the baron hotel -- that video, and i can't see it right now, but i can describe it. when you leave the baron hotel you drive through this corridor, a narrow corridor flanked on either side by concrete blast barriers and in that, if you slow down the video you can see there is a drainage ditch, i believe it's on the right-hand side in the video over my shoulder that drainage, sewage ditch, that would be a possible infiltration route where a suicide bomber could come in through the -- wade through the sewage and debris in that ditch, and that is where we have seen videos showing a number of bodies floating in that filthy water. so when you come out of the baron, you leave and go a couple of hundred yards down this for phied corridor. afghans were gathering there, hoping they could get into the abbey gate. when we went there it was a coordinated effort. we drove and we arrived at the abbey gate and they were expecting us and u.s. personnel and other foreign nationals, other foreign military personnel allowed us through, but that means that there is a military presence a

one near the baron hotel.aliban is reporting the casualties from the airport blast could rise. the taliban is saying 13 people have died. that is not confirmed by the pentagon. more headlines from annmarie hordern. the pentagon briefing was supposed to take place at 10:30. we know when that will happen? annmarie: we don't know when that briefing is going to happen . obviously the pentagon is likely trying to take stock of the situation on the ground before they start briefing the press and the world. at the white house the president of the united states was in the situation room when the first explosion happened. he probably remained there. we're unclear where he is right now, but probably in the situation room. following on that he was supposed to be sitting down with the primerica -- the prime minister of israel. there a lot of israeli journalists for this event. that has been delayed. the key focus of the white house is clearly going to be on this airport. who was responsible for this, how many casualties,

the baron hotel is where british diplomats and british troops for a while during the initial early stages of the evacuation, where they stayed from what we have heard. they have since moved out of that hotel . again, the explosion apparently from what we've heard from our sources near the airport from the gym to see that it took place between the baron hotel and the check board at the eastern end of the airport. we had ourselves planned to visit the airport just a few hours ago, but due to circumstances we were we were unable to earlier today we have spoken to the taliban minister of information, newly appointed minister them to and he gave us the press, his 1st interview where he also said, amongst other things that it was the taliban, the ward nato, that there wasn't a threat, a threat, not a specific threat that they didn't see it as a severe thread, the. but that they had information that someone could try to plug the bomb or apparently shoot up the crowd at the airport. the taliban had previously said this, the stage will persist until the americans leave the united states and nato,

another was at the baron hotel, it is about 150 meters. it is a hotel that is frequented by westerners, particularly americans and british. and a place where u.s. and others had been meeting in recent days to gather together into a group when they get the word they have permission to go through the abbey gate, they have been meeting at the hotel and walking over there together. so it is certainly a place that -- >> sorry, craig? >> yeah, just really quickly we wanted to make sure we had it out right now. they confirmed the abc news confirming a suicide attack killed 13 people including children and many others are hurt. the taliban went on to say that italian military personnel were at the gate where the blast took place and that u.s. officials moved their people inside of the airport "a few minutes before the blast happened." that came from a taliban source. 13 dead so far, scores of others hurt. let's take a step back and realize that is information coming from the taliban so we need to take it with a bit of a grain of salt. i will say t

i have stayed in the baron hotel, which isjust by| in the baron hotel, which isjust by abbey gate, whichn. but it is... you know, it used to be the military entrance into the airport that you would go through to get a military flight throughout the country. now being used obviously to process afghans and also having a lot of afghans and also having a lot of afghans outside waiting to be processed. who had been told, who had been warned that this could happen, yet still came in large numbers. and it is a tragedy, an absolute tragedy, what has happened to them. but clearly, you know, at the moment they are trying to focus on whether there will be another attack. this was a complex attack. look at what happened. it wasn't just one exposure, it was two explosions. one explosion first, we think probably a suicide bomber, followed by gunfire. we are not clear if that gunfire was from fighters and nearby all the people, the troops defending their position, and then a second explosion, which some people believe was a vehicle borne, a car bomb, essentially. so it was —— so it was a complex attack

one explosion reported from the baron hotel, or at least near the baron hotel. pters. it is 200 yards from the kabul airport. now in the original suicide bombing at the gate the abby gate, as it is called, three u.s. troops have been wounded. from the suicide bombing at that airport gate. fox was told it was someone with a suicide vest followed by a gunfight. all airport gates are closed. this was described as a complex attack. the white house will only say that the president has been briefed. he promised to pass on anymore information as possible, but inclear if the president is still in the situation room with his national security team. all this is happening thick and fast over there and it is not good news. >>> let's change the subject just a little. arizona's attorney general mark brnovich is barning of a potential terrorist threat at the southern border because of terrorists being released by taliban. tom homan joins me now. tom can you update us on this possible terrorist threat on the southern border? >> varney, i've been out network almost three years. i

the second glass was confirmed to have happened at or near the baron hotel, not are from the airport. president biden has been briefed in the white house situation room. the white house has released a statement, saying the president has met with his national security team including secretary of state antony blinken, secretary of defense lloyd austin, general mark milley, and commanders on the ground, and that he will continue to be briefed throughout the day. concerning the twin explosions, and gone spokesperson john kirby said we can confirm the explosion at the abbey gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casualties. we can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the baron hotel, a short distance from abdicate. we will continue to update. dow jones is reporting the u.s. ambassador in kabul has called -- told staff that four marines have been killed. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg.

that's one of the fuggates neare baron hotel where the british have stayed. they're out of their now and on their way out of the country in a matter of hours. that particular search place is normally where people who have been selected get patted down. general mckenzie, the centcom commander, talks about how the marines doing the searching would have felt the breath of the person on them. that is unlikely to have happened unless the person in question had been selected from the crowd. they don't just search everybody on their way in. so questions will of course be asked as to how that person came to end up being searched. the bomb went off. in that area, there are quite a few marines close together. that may explain the horrifying number of dead from this. intensely packed crowds all bustled in, showing their paperwork, essentially their cases why they should be allowed onto the airport. we understand there was another explosion near the baron hotel not far away. it could have been designed to follow up exactly there. we don't exactly know its precise locatio

then the other blast was close to the baron hotel. that has been up until extremely recently the british base of operations with the air assault brigade. also evacuees coming into the baron and moved through the abbey gate and into kabul international airport. the road at that point is bounded on both sides by blast walls which will concentrate any kind of the blast upwards and up and down the road. it's a way of accelerating or magnifying the capacity of any explosive devices to have it go off in a relatively confined space. but particularly inside walls that are designed to reflect back any kind of a blast. so the scenes we've seen and we've had to blur the videos. unfortunately i had to watch the raw versions. they are of carnage. there are reports from the pentagon of a number of american casualties. we don't know how many. we don't know what condition they're in. and as you say, the taliban have said that 52 wounded. the emergency hospital which is an ngo in central kabul said they admitted 60 people. they say that six afghans we

the baron hotel is controlled by the u. k and they 2 forces. it is one of the places where tens of thousands of afghans have been gathering up the taliban took control of cobble on august 15th. they've been going there to have their papers processed before being evacuated out of the country. western governments and security experts in cobble had be warning about a potential attacks around the airport for days. the taliban told al jazeera, it had intelligence about potential car bombs in the area, and also people to stay away. an increasing number of nato countries have already announced the halt to their evacuation operations. and these attacks jeopardize remaining flights. meaning many afghans who want to leave their country and they have all the necessary documents to do so could be left behind. well, we're closely monitoring those evacuation efforts in a moment, may need bulk or in london. we'll have an update on the final out of the british lead operation, but 1st speak to charles, who just heard from his in a couple lie for us now. and i'l

i international airport there. cobble and also the baron hotel, which is a couple 100 meters, basically across the street from the airport, adding that it was a quote unquote complex attack. and as you were mentioning, were also hearing that isis k, which is basically splinter group of isis isis, of the course on may at this point be responsible though that is not confirmed. this is a very fluid situation. as we continue to get updates about the number of dead, the number of injured absolutely a catastrophic and her epic situation. we're also hearing. likewise, you reported that as many as 5 us marines may have been among those injured possibly other americans as well. we're not hearing of any fatalities, but again, the numbers are fluid. again, as those numbers, the scores of people dead and injured africans, men, women, perfectly children continue to come in. we also know that president biden has postponed his meeting with israeli prime minister natalie bennett, that was supposed to happen around 1130 local time here on the east coast. obviously that's been pushed. we don't have a res

a second suicide attack at the baron hotel just 200 yards away. isis attackers then opening fire. the frantic rush to get medical help for the wounded. this all happened after an urgent security alert went out overnight advising u.s. citizens to avoid the apor and especially those gates. troops setting off flashbangs to disperse the crowd. just 24 hours ago, hundreds of people were gathered in the very spot outside the airport where one of these attacked happened. our ian pannell was there on the scene reporting. you can see just outside the airport wall, the kinds of crowds that were gathering. the president saying for those who carried out this attack, "we will not forgive you, we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pain." h's asked his commanders to develop plans to strike icy-k assets and leadership. at the airport, hours after the deadly attack, flights were scene taking off and the president made it very clear tonight that these evacuations will continue until this august 31st deadline. so, what will this look like with this continuing threat of terror? and t

we can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the baron hotel, a short distance from abbey gate, and we will continue to update. there will be a briefing lease and we bring you that live here on out to 0. for now, let's bring in david, just rush, he's a professor at the national defense university here. and catherine is also a former pentagon director of arabian peninsula fez. he joins us from durham professor yourself, i believe, subbed in afghanistan. can you give us a sense of just how something like this might have been carried out near such a heavily secured area like the well, it's not. the attack wasn't in heavily secured area. that's exactly the problem. so normally soldiers are trained to operate at a distance from civilians and basically push civilians away when you have a situation like this where you have meritorious and desperate civilian to, you know, you can't disburse with threats or gunfire. they're desperate, they're sympathetic. it's a pretty simple matter for any determine down to me, whether it's the taliban or isis, or whomever, to infiltrate this body

one at the abbey gate at one at the baron hotel. this were no americans at the baron hotel. that's where the british service members were. no indication that british service members were killed and also no indications that u.s. state department officials were killed in the attack at abbey gate. but what we -- what is very clear from the general, the mission continues. they will continue evacuations. they ramped up security. this was -- it's clear that somehow the bomber got past the so-called taliban security that was on the outer perimeter. they're going to try to push the crowds back further. but you have overwatch. general mckenzie was clear that they have ac-130 gun ships, they have ah-64 apache helicopters and a lot of isr over that airport. there will be i imagine a number of ways in which the u.s. military tries to indicate that any further attackers may be better beware before approaching the airport. general mckenzie said there's active threat streams suggesting that the terrorist groups that attacked today are trying to get a car bomb or a truck bomb closer to the

one blast happened close to the airport's abbey gate, and the other close to the nearby baron hotel. been used by some western nations as a staging point for evacuations since the airlift began. let me bring you the latest line from the british prime minister us confirmed in a statement that us and afghan civilians had died in the attack is at the airport. he confirmed the uk will continue with the evacuation programme according to the uk's timetable and boris johnson condemned the attack as despicable, and he said we are in the final stages of the evacuation. there are the initial comments when the british prime minister boris johnson. here's our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. it is the attack everyone feared, smoke and gunfire on the edge of the airport. two explosions in rapid succession in an area packed with civilians. shock and panic is injured orferried to hospital, kabul is used to atrocities, but this is the first of its kind since the city fell, targeting the very people most desperate to leave. translation:— people most desperate to leave. translation: ., , , ., tran

the second not far away, at the baron hotel, that's a staging point for americans hoping to evacuate. a short time ago, an emotional president biden paid tribute to the troops who were lost, and had a warning for isis-k, the terrorist group that claimed responsibility. >> we will not be deterred by terrorists. we will not let them stop our mission. we will continue the evacuation. >> o'donnell: the president also vowing to press on with the evacuation, promising to rescue americans and afghan allies with just five days until his deadline for withdrawing u.s. forces. well, we have a team of correspondents covering every angle. charlie d'agata is going to lead off our coverage in doha, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, norah. tonight, afghanistan is on a state of high alert. kabul hospital dealing with all the wounded, while many are wondering why today's attack are just the start of a campaign of violence. chaos and carnage, as back-to- back bomb blasts tore through packed crowds at the airport. first at abbey gate, the entrance guarded by u.s. marines. a gun battle broke

the baron hotel, as you are aware, is a deeply conquered structure and as you know, there were no youmilitary casualties as a of that. i'm sure that there were afghan casualties, but it will take us time to learn how many. we took some of them aboard the installation. many of them were taken to hospitals out in time. what i see comes from open social reporting. we are trying to gather more information about it. last point, i would tell you i don't know the size of the bomb and the size of the bomb is directly related to the number of people affected by the blast radius. as i have noted before, at the interface of these gates, someone has to look someone else in the eyes and decide they are ready to come in. we will find out exactly what happened to be on -- beyond that, but i would not like to speculate at this time. >> any other american citizens from the state department that were killed? >> none that i'm aware of. >> laura sullivan? >> thank you for doing this. a couple of questions. we have heard reports of a third and possibly a fourth attack today in kabul. can you confirm those

they had of course accelerated their withdrawal and they still had people at the nearby baron hotel. that is why, unfortunately, american service members were still at the gate processing entrance at 6 p.m. on thursday when a suicide bomber walked up and that's and aided his vest. host: how was your report received by the pentagon? guest: the pentagon of course was not happy that the information was leaked to me. yesterday john kirby, the pentagon spokesperson, he condemned what he called the unlawful leak of classified information at such a sensitive time as the operations are wrapping up. of course, politico is aware of this activity and there was certainly information that we withheld, knowing we didn't want to put any troops in harm's way and didn't want to jeopardize the operation either. i think that while the pentagon was not happy, politico and myself, we handled it as responsible journalists should. host: thanks for being with us this morning. guest: thank you so much. host: opening caller: good morning, this is the first time calling. i think the legacy of afghanistan is am

there was also an explosion at the hotel, the baron hotel, which was recently until recently used by us and british forces and diplomats to vet and to approve people for evacuation. it hasn't been in recent days, but that is where a suicide. sorry, a car bobbing took place it. he's vague. who's just just across the road. from another checkpoint that was mine, but predominantly taliban sizes. and between the taliban and sizes and the hotel where a whole lot of people which, which are everywhere around the hotel, around the, the field around the perimeter of the fuel that is kilometers and kilometers of fed to checkpoints that it's surrounded by civilians. people who are desperate people who are waving pieces of paper trying to get in screaming, pushing, shoveling with no space to move. you know, that have been reports of people being trampled without the bombings patrick's, i'm tied to to worry them. and the problem is that the threat of more bombings is persistent because the crowds haven't dispersed they, they move during the explosions. but they still, they're trying to, trying to

the baron hotel is controlled by the u. k and they 2 forces . it is one of the places where tens of thousands of afghans have been gathering after the taliban took control of cobble on august the 15th. they've been going there to have their papers processed before being evacuated out of the country. western governments and security experts in cobble had be warning about a potential attacks around the airport for days. the taliban told al jazeera, it had intelligence about potential car bombs in the area, and also people to stay away. and increasing number of nato countries of already announced the halt to their evacuation operations. and these attacks jeopardize remaining flights. meaning many afghans who want to leave their country and they have all the necessary documents to do so, could be left behind. and charles, of course, another attack can come at any time the eiffel threat is ongoing. that's correct. yes. we've been told that. certainly, any, any attack could happen at any time. this has been a really rude awakening for the taliban. thi

and also, at the nearby baron hotel. the jihadist group, isis-k, has claimed responsibility for the attack which the u.s. and others have been warning about for days. what you see there is a scene outside of a kabul hospital as families gathered hoping they would hear the names of their loved ones who were getting medical care. the u.s. president joe biden vowing to continue the airlift that has now brought more than 100,000 people out of afghanistan. and he's ordered the u.s. military to go after those behind the attack. >> for those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. >> the attack comes as u.s. forces race to evacuate americans and the thousands of afghans who helped them fight the taliban. despite the attack, scores of people are gathered at the airport hoping for flights out. cnn international security editor, nick paton walsh, recently spent time in afghanistan. he is with us live this hour

the vicinity of the abbey gate that hamid karzai international airport and in the vicinity of the baron hotel, which is immediately adjacent to the attack on the abbey gate was followed by a number of isis gunman who opened fire on civilians and military forces. at this time we know that 12 u s service members have been killed in the attack in 15 more service members have been injured. a number of afghan civilians were also killed and injured in the attack were treating some of them aboard h. kaaya many other afghan civilians have been taken out to hospitals in town we're still working to calculate the total losses we just don't know it. what that is right now. their loss weighs heavily on us all and i'll talk a little bit more about that, as we go through my prepared remarks. we continue to focus on the protection of our forces in the evacuees as the evacuation continues let me be clear while we're saddened by the loss of life, both u. s and afghan we'll continue to execute the mission. our mission is to evacuate us citizens third country nationals. special immigrant visa holders, us embassy

seems as if these are two large explosions, one at the abbey gate, and one at the nearby baron hotel, a hotel frequented by westerners, particularly americans and british for a long time, and even after the taliban took over kabul. we know there were at least two explosions. the u.s. was concerned about the potential for suicide attacks at that location and other gates around the airport, particularly there was a threat, a specific intelligence stream that warned about isis-k, isis khorasan, that they were trying to carry out attacks at the airport. everything is pointing that direction at this point, chuck. >> courtney, if the president made the decision he needed more reinforcements to finish the evacuation, how quickly. the pentagon was staging folks in kuwait before preparing for the extra troops they ended up having to call up before. is that one of the contingency plans? >> when they announced deployment of additional troops, the pentagon announced they would be sending three battalions or one brigade combat team. 82nd airborne, immediate reaction force, a group supposed to be r

service members were killed at the airport's main entrance for evacuees and at the nearby baron hotel. we're about to show you some graphic video of the scene but we think it is important to document the brutality of what is happening. the jihadist group isis-k has claimed responsibility for the attack. one of the bombers detonating his explosives in a sewer drench where many were waiting in line hoping to be processed for flights. the u.s. president joe biden wowing that the attacks won't stop the airlift that has now brought more than 100,000 people out of afghanistan and he is ordering the u.s. military to go after isis-k targets. >> for those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we wwill hunt you down and make you pay. >> meanwhile the uk ministry of defense says its armed forces have entered the final stages of their stay at thamid karzai airport and no more people will be called forward for evacuations. cnn has correspondents standing by live to cover this story there around the globe. from we

and the baron hotel that we know have killed dozens of afghans and also more than a dozen americans. he says that this will happen. he says he will not forgive, forget, he will hunt down those responsible and the words of the us president make you pay . so this is a president that is taking ownership of the situation even in the face of harsh criticism, even from members of the international community and on capital hill will the same time saying that he understands the grief that many of these american service members, families are feeling right now, because not only did he hold a moment of silence, but at times even appeared somewhat tearful, because his own son died as a result of military service from a brain tumor likely associated with the fumes from the burn pit. as he served in iraq, so he knows what it's like whether it is a killed in action situation or a residual injury that kills once service member returns home. joe biden is no stranger to grief. so when he speaks about lives last, you know that he understands the grief many of these families are feeling right now . and

the baron hotel is located just blocks away from the gate itself very nearby sort of an airport hotelght in that same area, also struck in a bombing attack today not clear how many casualties there are. the russian government is reporting 13 people were killed and 15 wounded that is from the russian foreign ministry that is not supported by the u.s. side. there is also a report that the u.s. -- one member of the u.s. military injured in this did sustain serious wounds we'll be on the lookout for more information on that. i've just been emailing with a veteran of the u.s. intelligence apparatus who offered intelligence into how this is unfolding. this u.s. intelligence veteran emailing me that the main concern is going to be having effective overwatch over the airport itself that is drones, helicopter, fighter jets to make sure the aircraft on the ground at kabul airport are going to be able to operate safely at that airport as they have been doing throughout all of this, we are told this former u.s. intelligence official emailing me and saying, i would not keep those aircraft on the g

you can see the baron, the area over the baron hotel.far from near the bean gate where an explosion was reported. in the video that we're blurring out, how far is that from a location where american forces would be? and you talked about the americans on the blast walls, essentially essentially looking over the blast walls. potentially to a blast? >>. >> they're high up. some of these are five or six yards high. in theory, they should have been relatively well protected. but the problem is that -- and this blast has gone off, and i'm just looking slightly off to the right there. i can see them. you're looking at them. where you see the red dot, the blast is south of that location, i think, in all probability. that's where people have been concentrating. that could have meant that american forces and others would have been very close to it. and because this road is bounded at that point on two sides by concrete walls, these blast walls, the force of the blast will go up and down the street and straight up, and that means that anybody up on

and can you give us any more details about the baron hotel? was that a car bomb or also a sue sued bomber? finally, state department employees side by side with u.s. marines at that gate. were there any other u.s. citizens killed in the attack and why were the marines so close together that so many were killed in one strike? >> so we think one suicide bomb at abbey gate, don't know fit was -- i just don't have that information. don't know much about the second bomb except one went off the vicinity of the baron hotel. and as far as i know, no -- there were no uk military casualties as a result of that. there may have been afghan casualties. i'm sure there were. it will take time to actually learn how many afghan tank casualties. we took some onboard the installation. so what i see is what i get on open source reporting. about the naught of the casualties. but we're trying to gather more information about it. i don't know the sues of the bomb. the size of the bomb is directly related to how many people are going to be affected by the blast radiu

i can confirm for you that we do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the baron hotel, that it was one suicide bomber. it comes as the uk government says it's stopping civilian evacuations from kabul after today and admits some people will be left behind. we are now processing approximately the last 1,000 people on the inside of the airfield and will fly them out today. that is effectively where we start to move to the next stage, the evacuation of our 1,000 troops. food shortages and only a few days of medical supplies left — aid agencies say the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan is worsening rapidly. in other news, firefighters are tackling a blaze at an industrial estate in leamington spa, where explosions and a strong chemical smell have been reported. and in the last few minutes, manchester united have announced a deal to sign cristiano ronaldo from juventus. hello, a very good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. and let's start with the announcement that came in the last hour from the foreign secretary, who said two british adults and the child of another british na

and the second just outside the gate by the baron hotel. we were at the baron hotel just last week.his was the staging ground for the british operation to evacuate people. that british operation has now been finished, but they're saying they're keen to stress, it is not over because of this attack. it is over because that was previously scheduled. this was the moment whereby they were going to end their evacuation operation. but what we also saw, brianna, i think will help our viewers understand a little bit how this could happen was that essentially you didn't have a huge amount of space between the first line of defense, which were these taliban check points and then u.s. servicemen sort of standing guard at the entrance to the airport. and what we experienced when we were dealing with these taliban check points is that they were not actively searching for weaponry, for ieds, things of that nature. they weren't necessarily patting everyone down. they were much more concerned with seeing people's documentation and with trying to push back the crowds, trying to reduce the number of

the other device was close to the so-called baron hotel compound.hat's a compound, a wall, reenforced compound designed to keep contractors safe during the last several years, very close to the airport. it is also where british air assault brigade has been doing the same thing, filtering people, in their case actually physically on the ground face-to-face with them, often yards from taliban fighters, bringing people in and getting them across, again, to the abbey gate. this is a very, very vulnerable location, a real magnet for evacuees. over the last several days it has been very clear that as the intelligence that has been coming to the united states and her allies about this imminent attack, it was more and more clear that at least one of these gates was going to be attacked. frankly, most bets were on the abbey gate because it is the most magnetic in many ways to evacuees. >> kylie atwood at the state department, we have heard for several days as sam just referenced there the threats were acute and real and persisted. what do we know now about r

suicide attack went off outside the hamid karzai international airport and another explosion at the baron hotel nearby. it's said that isis-k is responsible according to a senior taliban official. the situation on the ground remains volatile. we've been reporting the threat for an attack from isis-k that the u.s., australia have been warning people to immediately leave several gates into the airport yesterday. buses full of american citizens, american green cardholders and others fleeing afghanistan were sitting for hours and hours outside the gate, not permitted to travel those last few yards into the airport. the culmination of what the president and his top aides had been warning about all week. >> every day we're on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. >> we're operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis-k attack. >> the threat is real. it is acute. it is persistent. >> the big question now with u.s. cit

then a second blast occurred at the baron hotel complex. it's clear, according to general mckenzie, there were isis gunmen who then opened fire on civilians. that in itself suggests more possibly than just one attacker. it suggests maybe a coordinated team here. then how many of these individuals managed to get through the taliban security lines to that point and it goes back to the broader question of the u.s. essentially charging the taliban with their perimeter security. there's a long history between the u.s. and the taliban. they have not been friends for a long time. this change in relationship i'm sure people will look back on and begin to wonder if something slipped through this. no indication the taliban let the attackers through, but still a remarkable environment around that airport. >> reporter: we are going to be hearing from president biden today. when exactly the president is going to speak on these attacks that have killed 12 u.s. service members is still unclear, but we are told plans are being made right now for the presid

we can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the baron hotel. a short distance from abbey gate will continue to update, and we've now also had reaction to this attack in kabul from nato secretary general installs. and back you will see tweeted and said, i strongly condemn the heretic terrorist attack outside couple airport. my thought so with all those effected on their loved ones, priority remains to evacuate as many people to safety as quickly as possible. well, speaking of evacuation that speak to charlotte bellis in cobble, she's been spending a lot of time outside to couple airport. charlotte, glad to see that you are safe. can you talk us through what the situation looks like? they're on the ground now at the airport? well, we left there about an hour ago now, but way initially it just didn't explosion. around 5 40 pm. we headed towards the scene and there was chaos. as you can imagine, there was a lot of gunfire. taliban tried to push people away and control the scene. we tried to move closer towards abby gate. we heard another explosion.

gathering to get into the airport to try to leave the country, the second attack happening at the baron hotel nearby. americans have gathered there in the past for rescue and evacuation. he was general mckenzie says airport checkpoints are dangerous assignments for servicemembers. >> the danger is very real. we expect those attacks to continue. we assist the threat is high right now. we know isis would like to go after those aircraft. they've taken shots of those aircraft on occasion. >> isis claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 60 afghans and left 40 injured. this came after the state department warned americans outside airport gates to leave due to the increasing terrorist threat. officials say they expect further attempted attacks ahead of tuesday's deadline. >> we have to check people before they get to the appeal and make sure they are not carrying a bomb or any weapon that could make its way to an aircraft. we share versions of this information with the taliban and so they can do some searching and some attacks have been thwarted by them. >> reporter: the general telling re

bomber, while the 2nd explosion is thought to be in a car bomb of a 2nd explosion happened near the baron hotel where tradition american citizens have been based in recent days awaiting evacuation. several european nations announced early on thursday that they will hosting their evacuations from cobbled airport and they're still around 1500 americans and many other foreign nationals still enough kindest on, desperately trying to get out of the country before the us with roll deadline, which is now 5 days away. well let's go straight to the ask on capitol right now and live to a senior correspondent, but i guess the signing bye for us now. but. 5 the very good evening to you couple that the situation at the moment, the resulting in the wake of 2 explosions. what can you update us on were several kilometers away from the airport and yet still we can hear a stream of vehicles, the sirens blaring, driving, pos to and from the direction of the airports, ambulances of rescue vehicles, as well as, as well as vehicle belonging to the taliban, the taliban, by the way, itself was come out and condemned t

after that, there was a car bomb that went off about two yards away at the baron hotel.t's the place where the u.s. helicopter lifted 169 to safety a few days ago. we know that a gunfight broke out as well. we are not clear at this point who is responsible for this attack. the taliban has condemned it and vowed revenge for whoever carried out the attack. little solace for the u.s. servicemembers that are still on the ground at the kabul airport. now, the suicide bomber has been utilized at the airport, there is going to be medi-vacs out of the airport. you have flights going to katar. there is a very complicated threat environment. there are still terrorist threats for those going through the gates into the airport. those gates are closed at this time we understand. but a very, very sad day for the u.s. military. remember, the last u.s. servicemembers to die in afghanistan were two in february of 2020. it is devastating to hear the numbers. it is exactly the kind of death tolls that president biden said that he wanted to avoid that he didn't want to send anymore generati

there's a hotel, baron hotel that a lot of westerners stayed up until the taliban took over the city a week ago. it's a place where there actually has been some movement of u.s. personnel, americans, some afghans going through there. the u.s. military marines and in some cases soldiers have actually been at that gate, letting people through. there's also been some u.s. consular affairs officers, state officials at that gate. this was a place where there was a lot of concern about a potential attack leading up to today. we've been hearing about it in the last several hours. this is a threat from isis. there was very specific intelligence that isis was look ing to target one of the gates at the airport, potentially to try to attack, kill americans, westerners, even afghan civilians. because of that, one of the real vulnerabilities that the u.s. saw was the large crowds that gathered outside the gates the last several days. they were worried some isis fighter would infiltrate those gates, someone with a suicide attack, suicide bomber or a vehicle-born improvised explosive device, someon

airport gates where thousands of afghans were crowded last night, the second at a nearby hotel, the baron hoteltelling fox news there could be more attacks on the way they consider this to be an ongoing situation coordinated attack. to the pentagon spokesperson john kirby says there is "a number of u.s. and civilian casualties from the initial explosion" remember casualties, injuries and fatalities. among the injuries that we know of, at least three u.s. marines wounded, jennifer griffin is reporting one of those seriously now. we do know that they have medical capability at that airport, because our military does not travel without it. the next question might be do they need to air flight anybody out? how will this look on folding? we had another guest on last hour who knew 13 afghans who were hurt after the bombing. all of this coming hours after a dire warning from the state department to leave the area near the airport. listen to the horrific account from one witness. >> i am an afghan translator for the united states marine corps, i was ordered to get to the airport and get on the plane an

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the second attack happening at the baron hotel. americans gathered there in the past for rescue and evacuation. and afghan translator who worked with the marine corps describes the chaos he saw outside the airport. >> and an explosion happens. she died right in my hands. i don't know what exactly -- what is going on over there. ashley: isis claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 95 afghans have left 140 injured. the bombing came hours after the state department warned americans outside the airport gates to we've immediately due to the terrorist threat. they expect further attempted attacks ahead of today's deadline. >> the threat to armed forces from isis k is real. they believe it is their desire to continue the attack that we expect those attacks to assess the threat of suicide born view goals. we know isis would like to get after those aircraft if they can. they've taken the shot that aircraft on occasion. >> the us is prepared to take action against those responsible for the attack and insisting the evacuations will

don't know much about the second bomb, except one went off in the vicinity of the baron hotel, which as you're aware, is a deeply bunkered 40e89, and there was no uk casualties i'm sure there were afghan casualties, but it will take us time to learn how many afghan casualties we took some of them on the installation many were taken to hospitalization in the town. we're trying to gathers more information. i don't know that the size of the bomb, and the size of the bomb is directly related to how many people are affected so we are going to investigate that as i have noted before, you're at the interface point of these gates. somebody has to look someone else in the eyes and decide they're ready to come in we will find out exactly what happened, but beyond that, i would not want to speculate at this time. >> reporter: any other american citizens from the state department that were killed? >> none that i'm aware of now. >>> now back to the phone. laura sullivan >> reporter: thank you, general, for doing this can you tell me, we have heard reports of a third and possibly fourth attack in

it's next to the baron hotel, which is the headquarters for the british operation there. the baron hotel is slightly outside the main airfield compound but a very important location for filtering people through that camp and into the main airfield. so essentially there is a magnet there of two potential access points for people. when they go north up the road or more or less north up the road, they are bounded on either side, as they get closer to the airport perimeter, by blast walls. there's also a sewage or a ditch, a concrete ditch off to the left as they're walking up. now, there are tens of thousands of people sometimes, but many thousands at any time pressing up against that abbey gate, desperate to get in, don. now, the marines, the only way that these people can get in, particularly at this urgent end of the evacuation process, is for the marines. there used to be afghan special forces doing the filter and the initial search of people and bringing them in. now it was marines, and there will be -- 82nd airborne will be at other gates. they have to go forward and e

one is at the abbey gate attached to the airport, and the other is at the baron hotel is a matter of 100 meters of the abbey gate of the hotel. so the pentagon is verifying there were u.s. service members attacked and killed at that attack. there were marines at the abbey gate. they were there for several days checking the people who came through the gate to get on the planes. there were times u.s. consular officials to make sure they were getting the right people through that gate. what we also know is that security has been a concern, and add to that the abbey gate, and it is well known to the viewers at this point. that is the gate we saw that a baby was lifted over a u.s. marine grabbing the baby up and took him in for medical treatment. it is also the gate that is the site of large crowds where people are desperately trying to get through the gate and on to the evacuation flights. because of the large crowds, the u.s. is worried about the security there and not among the evacuees, but the possibility of some nefarious element such as isis-k could infiltrate the crowds and carry o

called the baron hotel. hotel run by a security firm, so it was a specialist secure hotel. it hosted the british forces when they had come in. outside the abbey gate, the main gate to that hotel on the street, that's where we saw swarms of people, where we had been filming all week. massive amounts of civilians were showing up. just down the street, maybe 30, 50 yards, there was a deep canal, surrounded by razor wire that american soldiers were trying to use to get people into the airport. as a scene, i had never seen anything like it before because you saw service members from ma different militaries there mingling with the public. the public, obviously very stressed and panicked to get out of the country, but t belligerent. very cooperative with the soldiers. i saw soldiers from canada, france, italy, and germany, and the main ones being from the united states and the u.k. forces. on the outer perimeter, you also had taliban fighters, who were somehow trying to control the crowds. but they were largely just